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- Former President Calvin Coolidge dies at age 60
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- Michigan governor William Comstock orders all banks in the state to close for eight days
- Joe Zangara attempts to assassinate FDR in Miami, but instead kills Chicago mayor Anton Cermak and wounds three others
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- Chicago World's Fair--"A Century of Progress"--opens
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- Birth of National Recovery Administration
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- Kansas City jury sentences Walter McGee to hang for kidnapping Mary McElray, part of a nationwide wave of kidnappings
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- Guards use tear gas and bullets to quell riot during a Pennsylvania coal mine strike
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- Alcatraz becomes home to nation's worst criminals
- 2,000 rural schools fail to open for the Fall Semester, 200,000 teachers are unemplyed and some 2.3 million children are not in school; colleges and universities are also forced to close
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- After second appeal, "Scottsboro Boy" Heywood Patterson found guilty for a third time of raping Victoria Price
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- Sir Malcolm Campbell sets land speed record of 272.1 m.p.h. on the beach at Daytona, FL
- Armstrong developes FM (frequency modulation) broadcasting
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- Lt. Cmdr. Francis Monroe Hawks breaks his own record for with a non-stop cross-country flight of 13.5 hours, aided by his autopilot "Mr. Zilch"
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- Wiley Post completes solo flight around the world in 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes with the aid of such technology as automatic pilot
- A fleet of Italian seaplanes touches down on Lake Michigan as part of the Chicago Exposition
- Maud Slye of the University of Chicago announces the likliehood that susceptibility to cancer is inheritable
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- Dictograph Products and Sonotone each announce improvements in marketable hearing aids
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- Plant pathologists determine cause of Dutch Elm Disease
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- Marconi announces discovery of micro-waves
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December 1933
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| culture
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 Fay Wray co-stars with a giant mechanical ape in King Kong
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- American Theatre of Radio :crime drama based on a story in American Weekly Magazine , the Sunday insert in all Hearst newspapers.
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Films Released in 1933 |
- She Done Him Wrong, starring Mae West
- 42nd Street, starring Julian Marsh
- King Kong, starring Fay Wray
- Duck Soup, The Marx Brothers (RealAudio)
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- The Three Little Pigs, produced by Walt Disney
- Gold Diggers of 1933 #1 and #2, starring Joan Blondell (RealAudio)
- Footlight Parade, starring James Cagney
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- New York Giants (NL) defeat the Washington Senators (AL) in five games to win 30th World Series
- Footlight Parade features choreography by Busby Berkeley
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Books Released in 1933
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- God's Little Acre, by Erskine Caldwell
- A Draft Of XXX Cantos, by Ezra Pound
- Anthony Adverse, by Hervey Allen
- The Thin Man, by Dashiell Hammett
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
- God's Little Acre, by Erskine Caldwell
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- Manhattan Federal Judge John M. Woolsey rules in favor of author James Joyce in case of "The U.S. v. One Book Entitled Ulysses," a decisive victory for freedom of publishing that narrows the definition of pornography
- American Theatre of Radio :sentimental drama based on a story in American Weekly, the Sunday insert in all Hearst newspapers.
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Adolph Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
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- Reports of Nazi mistreatment of Jews include dismissals from government and business positions, shop boycotts, raiding of homes, and beatings
- The Reichstag, the seat of German government, burns in Berlin
- Chinese Athletic Games
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An uneasy truce in war between China and Japan stirs Chinese civil unrest
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- Gerardo Machado forced to step down as president of Cuba during "August Revolution"
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1933 Chicago World's Fair